Colours of Durga Puja in Kolkata!

Durga Puja. If you haven’t been to Kolkata during Durga Puja, you have missed something. Kolkata is vibrant and colourful during one week of festivities. Goddess Durga is welcomed into everyone’s home and worshipped.

Huge pandals ( pre-fabricated structures) are erected at public places to display the goddess. Each pandal has its own theme. Over the years, they have become interesting with amazing diversity. You have all kind of themes – Tribal, Rural, Modern etc.. These pandals are a piece of art in themselves.

Not only do you see the artistic creativity in decorating these pandals suiting the theme, but also the elegant sculptures of Goddess Durga. We were there few years back and it was a life time experience.

Good friend and colleague Sabyasachi Sen Sarma went around Kolkata during this year’s Durga Puja and has come out with a magnificent album on the colourful pandals and festivities. You should see them to believe what we said previously. The variety is amazing and colours mind-blowing. Here are are few samples from his album.

Please make sure you go to Kolkata during Durga Puja in the coming years. Go on Pandal hopping and we assure you that you would love every minute of your stay there. Yes, Kolkata will be crowded during this time. But you will be amazed to see the enegy in the city. Plan it.

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Poorna & Brinda

We are Brinda and Poorna from Bengaluru, the “Silicon city” or “Garden city” of India.

We travel together. We caught the travel bug 20 years back. On our honey moon, we traveled over the sea, in the train, by bus and in an aircraft! Our adventures probably started in that year. It continues, ever since.